| 单词 | put something towards something |
| 释义 | put something towards somethingput something towards something phrasal verbphr v to use some money in order to pay part of the cost of something 以…支付某事的部分费用 Alec put the money towards a trip to Australia. 亚历克把这笔钱用在去澳大利亚旅行上了。 Examples from the Corpus put towards • They then celebrated by putting the money towards a dinner-dance.• We could put it towards a new bed head.• Laming claimed he knew nothing about the drugs ring and said Black put up £10,000 towards development of the stun gun.• He put his finger towards one of the clenched fists and found it tightly grasped.• But while Stockton councillors yesterday agreed to put £19,000 towards the costs, cash-strapped Middlesbrough said they could spend no more than £10,000.• By contrast, a cruiser is utterly directed, as Schopenhauer might have put it, towards the extinction of his desire.• A further difficulty is that it would apparently require us to put enormous resources towards trivial increases in length of life. → put something towards something at put(PHRASAL VERB) |
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